Re: xorg wont work and wont generate a log

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 16:45:45 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Florian Kulzer writes:

[...]

> > Is your local loopback interface up and working? Check the output of
> > "/sbin/ifconfig".

[...]

> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
>           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
> 
> this looks normal dosen't it? loopback is `lo'?

That seems OK to me.

Do you see anything interesting in /var/log/syslog?

Is there any difference if you run startx as root? (Normally you should
not do that, of course, but trying it might help to rule out permission
problems.)

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